Mar 10, 2009 01:32 PM
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I always have a liking towards kabadi, one of the ancient game which has roots in tamilnadu. So amidst curiosity wanted to watch this as this movie had a decent talk online. The story is about a group of young ruffians who have nothing much other than playing kabaddi.
There is a sad story behind the lead actor done by vishnu who loses his father in his childhood and goes for work in early age instead of schooling. His passion for kabaddi game makes him to befriend with other guys. This vennila kabaddi team is not so great in their gameskill and hence win once in bluemoon. so they get criticized by their families and they vow to prove atleast once that they are best in the game. In comes village festival and it paves way for the romance blossoming between vishnu and saranya mohan who has given subtle performance compared to earlier chubby roles.
The movie is slow paced in the first half as it is more inclined towards the romantic angle rather than the game. After second half and then the entry of Kishore who acts as the kabaddi coach the movie gains the much needed tempo. Kishore has done a great job as coach and he has underplayed his role. A promising potential along with vishnu and saranya mohan. The rest of the story is whether the vennila team creates a mark in the kabaddi tournament and does vishnu's romance succeed or not.
Well the plus points are the music by selvaganesh, son of ghatam maestro vikku vinayagram(lesa parakudhu, pada pada are melting melodies) and direction in patches. There is no separate comedy track and there are couple of well brought out comedy sequences by one of the lean tall guy and the obese fellows. Here comes the drawback that a movie on sport genre should pick well built persons and definitely a game like kabaddi require strong built guys, but here there are some characters who look obese and funny. Seems like they are just picked for comedy quotient and couple of them don't have much scenes at all. The captain character has no depth or feel in this movie and his sudden change of mind during the climax is not appealing. So casting is not that right in this movie. Apart from this the big blunder I would say is the climax. So the director has thought that a tragic end will impact the audience!..what a wrong decision it is. A movie based on sports should not only teach positive energy but should actually end up positively. Maybe the director could have thrown some reality in showing the meager chances of their romance getting united or not. But not by killing the character, it actually killed the movie. It would have been a perfect finale, if the hero had brought laurel to their village by returning to their home place with the trophy.
A seesaw game in the end.
